Chuck McGee and Allen Raymond gave very different testimony in the NH phone-jamming trial of James Tobin.
The defense claimed that Raymond’s testimony was suspect because he was hoping for federal clemency if he could incriminate Tobin.
Chuck McGee, who had already spent 7 months in prison, had nothing to hope for from the prosecutor. He did have something to hope for from the NH Republican Party, if his testimony saved Jim Tobin’s hide. The NH Republican Party is a big client of Chuck McGee’s new post-prison employer, a “national, full-service, GOP direct mail firm.” And check out the rest of his new firm’s list of clients:
- Governor Craig Benson
- Republican former governor of NH, elected in 2002, defeated in 2004 in a campaign that focused on Benson’s ethics.
- Governor James Douglas, Lt. Governor Brian Dubie
- Republican governor and lieutenant governor of Vermont
- Vermont Republican Party and New Hampshire Republican Party
- Republican, obviously. Chuck McGee was Executive Director of the NH Republican Party when he ran the phone-jamming in 2002.
- Americans for Job Security
- Conservative “issue advocates” under investigation for using their tax-exempt millions of corporate money to influence elections.
- US Senators Judd Gregg & John Sununu, US Congressmen Charlie Bass & Jeb Bradley
- Republicans all, NH’s 4 representatives in DC
- National Right to Work Committee
- Conservative “issue advocates” who spent $1M in 2000 elections attacking Democrats.
- Scott Paterno for Congress
- Republican candidate, 2004, endorsed by George Bush, defeated by Democratic opponent.
- NH Senate President Tom Eaton
- Republican recently ousted from this job.
- Elevare Communications
- Republican NH State Senators Bob Clegg, Carl Johnson and Chuck Morse are promoted by this NH political PR firm.
- The Dennehy Group
- Former Republican National Committeeman Michael Dennehy runs this “government relations firm specializing in national grassroots strategy.”
When the civil trial comes around, I hope the Democrats will do a better job than the Federal prosecutor of making it clear that McGee as well as Raymond has conflicts of interest.